Alone Once More EditionStubbed >>24982319>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24988206I have seen the same as by the same novel with 15 different women so no
Reincarnated as a blue space babe
>>24988241Gross. Get a wig, blue man group.
>>24988241wouldI would lift her little vestigal reptilian tail and hold it tight in my firm grasp, as I enjoyed her performative struggles that truly weren't, in zero G.Followed by getting space head
>>24988079>I only write because nobody else produces the stories I actually want to read ANY MOREadding two words, made it apply to me.
Why do you put faith in metaphysical claims that can't be empirically tested? Are you just a science-ignorant caveman?
>>24988301>you have to believe X with no evidence or rationality,Said no one everJust dont expect people to take your materialist takes seriously if you (1) rely on fallacies to justify them or dismiss contrary views, or (2) explain away consciousness by appeals to quantity/complexity without addressing what it actually is. Its like the materialists here think they are debating random sheeple on Quora who have no prior understanding of logic or the faults in the materialists account and that you can just run with whatever bullshit you want with nobody calling you out. Newsflash: that shit that does not pass muster on /lit/ and it will get you called out, this is not reddit or Quora
>>24988316>Said no one everIt is literally the only thing being argued over in this thread, spergy>Intellectual intuition, the faculty by which metaphysical truths are apprehended, is not subject to ordinary reasoning or sensory evidence. It is self-evident to the purified intellect or to one properly initiated, and its validity is grounded in direct realization rather than argumentation or experiment.
>>24979312Why are you are a hyper materialist?
>>24988324>It is literally the only thing being argued over in this thread, spergyWrong, that’s a dumb strawman. You are probably the same guy who just got BTFO’s by multiple people so now you are coping and trying to soothe your ego by inventing and attacking random strawman lmao.Nowhere does that post that you quoted those sentences from near the top of the thread say you “need” to do anything whatsoever or subscribe to any belief whatsoever, it merely describes the natural consequences and results of either accepting or rejecting the factual existence of intellectual intuition. Nothing about that post is prescriptive in any manner.Secondly, setting aside that it’s not prescriptive, the fact of the fruit of intellectual intuition being self-evident is a kind of evidence in itself, so nobody is saying “just accept something with no evidence”
>>24988342Read it retard.>Intellectual intuition [is] the faculty by which metaphysical truths are apprehended>Intellectual intuition... is not subject to ordinary reasoning or sensory evidenceSo you are meant to "intuit" metaphysical "truths", without using reasoning or evidence.>b-but intuition is evidenceMaking shit up is not evidence, you fucking retard. Anyone can make shit up, and everyone makes up different shit. You are fundamentally unable to understand that as an autist, therefore you make statements like this:>It is self-evident to the purified intellect or to one properly initiatedAka >AGREE WITH ME OR YOU ARE DUMB HYLIC
What on Earth did I just read? So much for detective fiction...
>>24988240>Oh no, Wilson.>Not again for the love of the crown.The Laurel and Hardy of literature
you did read 100+ books in the year of our Lord 2025 didnt you /lit/?
>>24986731i am trying to improve my cognition before i start reading againmy brain has been damaged from years of not exercisingmy reading comprehension is bad as a result of of a sedentary lifestyle(no bloodflood or oxygen to the brain)i have been doing dead hangs and planks. i started doing pull ups. i am trying to get oxygen and bloodflood to the brain to improve cognition
I got like... eight
i used to be able to read fine in school. After i became a NEET my cognition went to shit. i think a sedentary unhealthy lifestyle caused it i can't comprehend anything i read now
>>24986731>you did read 100+ books in the year of our Lord 2025 didnt you /lit/?nope, but I did download 10,000 or so ebooks off PirateBay, just searching for 'assorted' once a week
>>24986812There are classics mixed in if you actually looked.
Can we all agree that he was a mediocre sci fi writer, and that jurassic park was just lightning in a bottle?
Sphere is fantastic, and so is its sequel, Cube.
>>24986421Dinosaurs are fake and gay.
Have you read literally anything besides JP? They're all page turning bangers, every one of them, even the global warming one
>>24986421His novel about how the Japanese were going to take over America published a year after their economy crashed is pretty lol tier
...Anonymous01/01/26(Thu)18:02:39 No.24986263 Crichton books are a very unique vibe because he was extremely popular with women his entire life. And thus this is reflected in his writing, storyline and how women are written. To me, a socially adjusted guy that was also a hit with the ladies I notice a weird "downer" sentiment in most literature, especially towards romance and women. It took a while before I realized it's because most of the writers have been failures in the love department, or not very popular with women. Crichton doesn't suffer from this bullshit. It's written by a guy that is desirable. You immediately pick up on this in a good way. Go read "sphere" it's to this day the easiest to read book I've ever read in my life.
This world finds redemption not by being raised into myth (which it is not), nor by McCarthy finding the loveliness in all the ghastliness and in morally ambiguous characters. No, the only redemption here is found in the style in which it is evoked. McCarthy does not look away from the all the terribleness, both material and of the heart; he has little mercy to spare and doesn't flatter anyone with any measure of pandering. The heroism is purely in the evocation, a Heroism of Style.He seems to be saying that all these characters and innumerable places that are evoked are alluring not because they validate some grander myth or some idea or interpretation, but because they exist.
Recently I got into highly acclaimed literature because I heard it had narratives that were vastly superior to low-brow entertainment (like anything that's not artsy film). So I read Crime and Punishment and I thought it was pretty interesting. But the way everyone acted it was like the book was supposed to give me an existential crisis or something like that. I also read The Great Gatsby which I think was basically just a 1920s Shakespeare play and I think it was just fine but not groundbreaking. I also tried to read Infinite Jest but I think it filtered me honestly. Anyway what do I do? Am I too retarded for this? Should I just watch anime instead or?
The way plot is used is why literature is acclaimed. It's a hierarchyTrash fiction is plot above all else for shallow stimulation Great genre fiction partners with plot as a stucture for explorationGreat literature subordinates plot in service of reflection
>>24986891>Should I just watch anime instead or?People who end sentences with "or" are always fucking retards.
>>24986891Yes.>>24987013Dostoevsky is highbrow. Ironically your insistence that something that is also read by "normies" disqualifies it from being great makes you a midwit who certainly doesn't have any qualifications as to quantify what is middle- or highbrow.
>>24986891>3 ish books readThat isn't enough. It's like learning to like beer. The initial barrier is what makes it so much better once you've pushed through it. It sounds silly: entertainment is about enjoyment, right? So what's the point in doing something that isn't as simple and enjoyable from the start? Shouldn't some consumerist slop be objectively better? No! You're brain is fucked by modern stimulus. You need to slowly unwind that by continual effort in reading older, less exciting works. Eventually you'll get to the point where it just 'clicks': the classics and old masterpieces become more enjoyable than the crap you used to enjoy and you realise how pedestrian that crap really IS. Advice: Keep at it. It gets better. Read not the supper l33t books /lit/ recommends but comfy classics. The count of monte cristo, treasure island, robinson crusoe, etc.. Like any addiction, you don't stop taking the addicted substance immediately: wind it down. Slowly overtime try to increase the amount of these types of books you read, whilst decreasing the slop. Then once you can really enjoy these - even if only a bit - you start with the proper, dense classics. The ones with the payoff. >t. guy for whom it was just like this
>>24988088>Ironically your insistence that something that is also read by "normies" disqualifies it from being great makes you a midwitLearn to read midwit
What do you read when you’re going through a really bad anxiety episode / panic attack / paranoia spiral?
I don't read at such times.I focus on my breathing and try to empty my mind until calm.After calm I might read some stoic quotes to remind myself to stop being a bitch and deal with what I can and let go of what I can't.
>>24987965I used to read Buddhist insight/Vipassana meditation lit.Helped me through some shit times.You see things from other worldly perspectives and can heal your mind somewhat.For example I thought i was dying because I smoked to much weed one time and got really paranoid thinking I was having a heart attack, so I read some insight meditation and it calmed me down.Another time I ingested too much ketamine and for months and years after that I became isolated and withdrawn from the world, insight meditation and buddhist lit sort brought me back around.My biggest problem was drugs and those drugs fucking with my head.
>>24988015To add, i used to print pdf's from this website, it has been around for a long time.https://www.buddhanet.net/
>>24988015as this anon says, jsut focus on your Buddhist meditations, especially Metta
in what context does one get a bad anxiety episode / panic attack / paranoia spiral?
ITT we write a story together, three words at a time. I'll begin. >It all started
," said the queer.
Who was, apparently
, a Catholic militant
addicted to anime
and huge cocks
So the One is absolutely simple yet has the power to overflow itself and generate the Indefinite Dyad/Nous, just because? This power doesn't violate it's absolute simplicity? And then the Forms of the Nous don't formally exist in the One, but somehow eminently. They begin to exist formally and distinct when the Nous reflects back on the One, but the Nous is ultimately perceiving and reflecting back the Forms that exist eminently in the One. This seems like a cop out to me. Nothing comes from nothing, but Plotinus wants the One to have all the forms yet free of the consequences that his axioms would imply (ie multiplicity, which is bad and evil). Aristotle was more honest to say that God/the One is thinking. Even if this introduces some kind of multiplicity, Plotinus thinks he gets to avoid that by having the Forms exist, but not really, in the One.
>>24986804(Faggot)>crypto-Aristotle threadUnqualified "Being" does not need to partake of Intellection to then become the Qualified Intellect. Since Qualified Being knows itself as the Intellect, it isn't One, but One-Many. Emanation or emitting anything at all is in analogy but not in reality of the three principles of Good or One, Mind or One-Many, Soul or One and Many(sequentially within time). Matter is not a principle unto itself for it exists for the Soul to become an enmattered living being, but nevertheless is the fourth eternal ungenerated principle in the manner of it being the furthest extent in the schema away from the One as it is why it cannot produce anything further that makes it different from itself besides comparative distinctions of matter to smaller matter, ad infinitum, is still material. Asking why is there many things rather than one thing is answered by Necessity thereof to have such eternal principles govern the All. Forms as in Shapes does not exist in Pure Being, while Forms as in Ideas exists in a hypostatically simpler mode where all the Ideas overlaps and converges to the vanishing point of the Formless One, as failed yet approximated expressions of the inexpressible, the sweetness of this ambrosia is not the sweetness of phenomenal sweets, where antinomies are blurred in our mortal blindsight but the divine insight into that which isn't even divine is very bright, where all the Forms radiates back into the One without abandoning the Formations that ritually draws forth the shapeless shape enmattered and shaped through effectively of the finality, the end of the effect.
>>24986804Crypto-geometry thread with the mention of axioms, one, size/magnitude and shape
>>24987619OP BTFO’Dwell done lad
Behold: the phD level intelligence that's going to write the next literary classic
>>24986301I have GPT-5 Pro at work and Deep Learning is actually legitimately great at pulling out figures and information from various sources and never hallucinating.
>>24986301Is this Waldun?
>>24986301use opus 4.5 instead bro
>>24986989If AGI were to require massive amounts of resources and land just to conceive like this anon said here >>24986390 it's likely humanity will go bankrupt/destroy itself trying to create it before it will have the opportunity to destroy us itself.
tards ask stupid questions of a system it was not designed to answer, meanwhile patients submit their MRIs and get accurate diagnoses their own doctors missed
What the fuck is wrong with this Scottish faggot? Why did he glom onto Islam so hard all of a sudden?
>>24985776Hi Waldun
>>24981550>He may have been forcibly taken over and forced to submit to Allah.al-Zutt???
Did KD submit to the Zutt?
>>24983680I'm garnering a thinly veiled interpretation of something that's not good here.
>>24983670I think his moral philosophy and psychology is correct.
Does anyone know how to download those "Print Disabled" protected books on internet archive?
>>24986504Copyright needs to be illegal
>>24986504i tried to use a browser addon, which took a long ass time to download an absurdly large sized file, subsequently wasting more time trying to compress the file down somehow, only to then realize that I didn't look properly and it was on anna's anyway in perfect size and quality. so do that, don't be an attention-murdering agitation-driven fool like me, that's principially what causes me to operate in regretful ways.anyway. here's that one i'd found.https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/internet_archive_downloader/also, never pay for reading a book by the way. vaisyas don't dictate rights, in the only meaningful sense of the word, they are subhumans plain and simple.
>>24986504Try annas-archive.org
Who is your favourite English Romantic poet? You can learn a lot about someone's personality and intelligence depending on their choice.
>>24984980I've been leaning to Blake lately.
>>24984980>Who is your favourite English Romantic poet?Percy gave me Frankenstein, so him.
>>24985795Keats was technically Irish, no?
The Original 18th century romantics (Gray, Beattie, Thomson, Warton, Chatterton) were far better than the romantics who came after but unforunately because most "fans" of the romantic poets aren't into their poetry at all but prefer gossip and drama about their personal lives they don't get nearly as much attention.You can tell people don't actually read the poets when they spend more time discussing about who byron or shelley fucked or was interested in rather than their actual poetry.
>>24984980Frederick, Baron of Hardenborough, called Novalis
>Anna's Archive
>>24988176>Sophie Wilson >hotNigga you need your eyes checked
>>24988176Also why are so many IT software types trannies?
>>24988183I don't think my irony there was really over-subtle. He's not just not hot, he's "uncanny valley" levels of unpleasant.>>24988184Good Q. One obvious thesis: if you're a MtF tranny, you can't have children, but you have the female-brain desire to have children plus the male-brain STEM chops to write computer programs, so you write computer programs as your "children".
>>24987217If I take a picture of your car am I stealing your car?
>>24988193I dunno. Was never a STEM guy personally. Mostly spend hours researching history and political philosophy in my spare time.
